Impact of the Election Formula Change on the Structure of Competition in Local Legislatures: Lessons from Poland

IF 0.6 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politologicky Casopis-Czech Journal of Political Science Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.5817/pc2023-1-25

Kamil Glinka, M. Klonowski, Karolina Niemczyk, Maciej Onasz

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Abstract

The aim of the article is to illustrate the political consequences of changes in the electoral system for elections to municipal councils in Poland introduced in 2018. For the purposes of the article, the following hypothesis is formulated: the changes in the electoral formula for elections to municipal councils with more than 20,000 inhabitants (excluding CCS), introduced under the 2018 amendment to the electoral law, alters the structure of political competition. The changes include: decreasing the advantage of the victorious election committee over its main rival (CI index), decreasing the number of relevant participants in the struggle for power (ENP index), broadening the extent to which the distribution of seats reflects the preferences of voters (PI index), and decreasing the ‘ownership’ of the most powerful electoral committee (AI index).

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选举公式变化对地方立法机构竞争结构的影响:来自波兰的经验教训

本文的目的是说明2018年波兰引入的市政议会选举制度变化的政治后果。为了本文的目的，本文提出了以下假设:2018年选举法修正案引入的2万以上居民(不包括CCS)的市政委员会选举公式的变化，改变了政治竞争的结构。这些变化包括:减少获胜的选举委员会对主要竞争对手的优势(CI指数)，减少权力斗争的相关参与者数量(ENP指数)，扩大席位分配反映选民偏好的程度(PI指数)，减少最强大的选举委员会的“所有权”(AI指数)。

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Politologicky Casopis-Czech Journal of Political Science POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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1.80

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： Czech Journal of Political Science (Politologický časopis) is a peer reviewed journal published by the International Institute of Political Science in Brno. It is the first peer reviewed political science periodical issued in the Czech Republic. The first issue of the journal was published in 1994. Each year there are three issues which come out in February, June and October. The journal provides a representative platform for presentation of the outcomes of the original political science research and thus significantly contributes to the constitution of political science as a scholarly discipline and to its establishment among other social sciences. The journal features studies, articles, review essays, discussions, reviews and information on the events in the political science community. The texts may be submitted in English language. The topics cover the areas of political philosophy and theory, comparative political science, political sociology, policy analysis, European studies, international relations and security studies. The journal is provided to the editorial board of International Political Science abstracts – Documentation politique internationale.